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Friday, 12 May 2017

Garden Life

I've been spending a lot of time in the garden the last couple of weeks. It's been blissful out there with the birds singing and the pond trickling away. Today has been lovely and sunny, but even on chilly days with the rather horrible north easterly wind we've had battering us over the last couple of weeks, I've still been out there with a blanket round me, reading my book and hugging a hot cup of tea.

As it's been nicer weather today I took the opportunity to take some photos... I'm also hoping you may be able to identify a rather lovely flower for me.

These are so pretty, a lovely delicate pink colour

We've replaced our lavender this year as the old bushes were getting a bit woody.

There are sunflowers against the fence, I'm hoping they'll grow nice and tall.

We bought 2 roses, a climber and a rambler, one pink one peach and both scented.

What a pretty garden you have, Cheryl. Very soon it will be amassed with flowers and veggies. One of life's pleasures is to spend time in a garden with a good book in one hand and a cup of tea in the other. Enjoy!

You've certainly got green fingers, everything in your garden looks beautiful. Not sure about the purple flower, I can't really make the leaves out in the photo but they look a little similar to an aquilegia and the flower looks a little similar to aqulegia clementine, though I'm not convinced it is this plant.

Dear CherylThe pink plant in the first photo is a persicaria bistort (common name, Bistort) and the blue/purple one looks to be a very double type of aquilegia (common name columbine), possibly something like 'Winky Blue'.You have some lovely plants.Best wishesEllie

That looks a lovely garden. I like a nice garden but don't like gardening at all. Fortunately my husband seems not to mind! I like the idea of a blanket outside. That's on my list of things to do soon!

Can't help with the flower name but your garden looks beautiful! Now that we're back I'm going to start planting the garden. My friend gave me some of her flowers to plant (again). She said I wouldn't be able to kill them, but the last lot she gave me haven't grown so we shall see lol. My only problem is that I like to grow veg but I'm gone for six weeks in the summer so they don't get a lot of care. Sigh. Maybe this year I'll just do flowers.

Hi, Thank you for sharing the story of showing your daughter about snapdragons and it backfiring on you! That was a cute memory.Your flowers and veggies are looking great. I know you look forward to tea each afternoon. Your sweet doggies are precious. We have a chihuahua/terrier mix that looks very similar to yours. They are precious companions, aren't they.

I'm glad others were able to help you identify the flowers as I don't have a clue, but I can say how pretty they all look! Your garden is very productive with all those veg as well.Being outside in any weather can do wonders for us, especially with tea!Lisa x